[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - ISCED 2011 Education Programme

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 02:18 2022-04-18, 
kaartjesman at mykolab.com đã viết:
> On maandag 18 april 2022 02:53:48 CEST Minh Nguyen wrote:
>>   It turns out that rationalizing all
>> the world's educational systems is much more complicated than
>> any one dialect of English can reasonably accommodate.
> 
> Maybe the effort to somehow compare the method of education in
> different cultures all over the world is the reason for the
> failure.

In fairness, I don't want to characterize ISCED itself as a failure. It 
has a very specific purpose: to harmonize national educational 
statistics to aid in international development decisionmaking. I don't 
think most of us are qualified to evaluate UNESCO's success in that regard.

However, mappers have been applying ISCED classifications directly to 
individual educational facilities, and [1] would essentially make that 
the norm in Germany. I haven't seen any examples of education 
authorities doing quite the same thing at a national or local level. 
It's more common to gather data on a school's individual characteristics 
(such as an age range, grade range, or curriculum), and to classify 
standardized curricula according to localized classification systems 
that ISCED can then harmonize.

These ISCED tagging schemes aren't even "copying data that is made up by 
a 3rd party", as you put it, but rather mappers deriving this 
information themselves based on verifiable characteristics, then baking 
the derivations into the database.

[1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/331

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